A group of 4 (Kathie, Bel, Darwin, Harley) traced a few more critters and small cars for the critter bags. Harley and Bel also installed wheels on a box of Caravans. Grant and Al fired up a couple of routers mounted in tables and rounded-over the edges of Locomotives and Large Oldies. Frank drilled windows in several boxes of cars. Rollie used the Rigid sander donated by the Borg family to sand a box of crayon vans.

Rick Weisbeck brought in hole-sawn cutouts from turtle banks. Al Oines will sand them smooth and prepare them for installing on Locomotives. Rick also loaded up 46 large wooden boxes and 25 smaller boxes to put into our storage area inventory for our first completed toys for 2015.

Boxes of toys were exchanged, and other cars were taken home to work in members garages. Taking work home (home-work) were Lon, Frank, Ed, Harley, Al, Julian, Darwin, and Bob. Currently, in the storage area at the Club for Boys Shop, there are several boxes of toys that need sanding by hand or with mouse sanders, several boxes that are ready for routering round-overs, and several left to cut from blanks, as well.

Friday, April 17, 2015

The members attending the Scroll Saw Special Interest Group (SS SIG) on Thursday evening April 16, 2015 at Rick's Shop were in for a surprise.

Activities: 3 D scrolling: Books and patterns were reviewed. Patterns were pasted to wood and the cutting started. Two scrollsaws were making sawdust, and people were excited about the potential projects they would soon be creating. Danny cut a pattern which showed an eagle from one side but an owl when rotated 90 degrees. Rick cut a similar pattern, Darwin cut one which showed a mountain lion from one angle and a mountain sheep when rotated 90 degrees, and Bob cut one half of the 3D giraffes that were left from the last SS SIG.

Books were borrowed and people will be practicing at their own shops! Fun projects ahead!

Come next time and watch the action. Rick promises more challenges next month.

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